Deadline: August 12, 2009

The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs. The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support nonprofit organizations worldwide that are led by social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: environmental sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional responsibility, economic and social equity, and peace and security.

Within these issues, special consideration will be given to social entrepreneurs working in five critical sub-issue areas that threaten the survival of humanity:
* Climate change
* Nuclear proliferation
* Global pandemics
* Conflict in the Middle East
* Water scarcity

Skoll Awards provide later-stage funding, which is generally structured as a $1 million grant paid out over three years. Nonprofit organizations interested in applying must have a track record of at least three years.

Related Resources:
Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship